Unlocking the Power of On-Demand Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Cyxtera CXD Compute Nodes Powered by Nutanix

Multiple U.S. intelligence agency assessments have concluded that a foreign nation state sought to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. In response, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission released non-competitive grant funding to help states and U.S. territories raise the cybersecurity of their Election Critical Infrastructure. Gaining visibility into the security posture of Election Infrastructure is often difficult, even for smaller municipalities. States and municipalities need a prescriptive solution that will help them ramp up security visibility quickly.

What’s in a name? In NVMe-OF’s case, quite a lot. What’s that, you say, apart from being a front-runner for technology’s worst acronym awards? Data centre transformation, is that better? No, of course it isn’t and with good reason. Infrastructure vendors have been telling us how important it is to refresh our data centre infrastructures for some time, as otherwise you won’t be able to reap the rewards of, you know the sort of thing, massively scalable analytics workloads, application consolidation, more dynamic infrastructure, greater business value and so on. Trouble is, for a wealth of reasons, few enterprises have the luxury of rip-and-replace transformation. And while processing and storage have moved forward at the speed of Moore’s Law, the pesky network has continued to slow everything else down. So, here’s the good news. The NVMe-OF protocol has emerged from the direct attached storage world as a way of connecting solid-state storage to processing at, well, the speed of light (OF stands for Over Fabric), essentially removing the bottleneck of data transfers.

HAProxy ALOHA is a load balancer that’s ideal for companies in search of high performance and ease of use. It comes as either a hardware appliance or a virtual appliance and provides load balancing of TCP, UDP and HTTP traffic, DDoS protection, and active-active clustering. One of its newest features is the ability to distribute traffic across multiple datacenters or regions through global server load balancing (GSLB).

Building a backbone for efficient service delivery is the key to business continuity and providing an 'always-on' experience. But how can digital-first enterprises proactively protect their IT infrastructure from downtimes, outages, and security risks?